A new Australasian record price for a yearling was set in Sydney on Tuesday when Black Caviar’s half-brother by Redoute’s Choice was sold for A$5 million as Lot 131 at the 2013 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.
Inglis’ sales ground at Newmarket in Sydney is buzzing ahead of the start of the 2013 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale tomorrow, which will feature the offering of Black Caviar’s half-brother as Lot 131.
Inglis graduate Fiveandahalfstar continued the dominance of Australian-bred three-year-olds in the nation’s weight-for-age feature events this year when holding off all challengers to take out today’s $2.25 million Group 1 ATC BMW Stakes over 2400m at Rosehill Gardens.
InglisTV, TVN, Sky Racing and Channel 7 will be working together next week to showcase the region’s breeding and racing industry via extensive coverage of the 2013 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale.
The 193 lot catalogue for the 2013 Inglis Scone Yearling Sale is now available online and on the Inglis Sales iPad App. The one day sale will be held on Sunday 19 May at White Park, Scone.
Leading sires with big representations in the 2013 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale catalogue featured prominently with stakes winners in Australia on Saturday, including those of winning Inglis yearling sale graduates Aliyana Tilde and Budriguez.
ELIZA PARK STUD, one of Australia’s leading thoroughbred stud operations located in Victoria, is to be offered for sale by expressions of interest closing on April 26.
The start of the 2013 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale is less than two weeks away and many offerings have received recent pedigree updates, which is very timely with entire drafts available for inspection at Newmarket from next Tuesday.
The second leg of the 2013 Aushorse Golden Horseshoe Series, the S$90,000 Inglis Australian Easter Sale Stakes, was conducted over 1000m at Kranji in Singapore on Sunday, with only a short head separating Tashi and Rikioh on the line.
The opportunity to aim higher awaits the connections of High Esteem after the three-year-old put on an impressive performance over 1700m at Caulfield on Saturday to claim a $100,000 Inglis Race Series Bonus.
Racehorses were in good demand at the 2013 Inglis Melbourne March Thoroughbred Sale today, just as a graduate of the Oaklands sale ring claimed the $170,000 Albury Gold Cup in the same afternoon.
Twelve months ago Gai Waterhouse travelled Fat Al 550kms to claim the Myer Albury Guineas. Today the 1400m three-year-old event and lucrative Inglis Race Series Bonus that goes with it was won by the aptly named Road Trippin trained by Stephen Theodore.
The Queen of world racing, Black Caviar, equalled Kingston Town’s Australian record of 14 Group 1 victories when she dashed to an effortless win in the MVRC William Reid Stakes at Moonee Valley on Friday night.